Quotes About Art

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.

I think the challenges that come with the responsibility of art directing something is something that appeals to me.

So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.

It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me.

All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.

I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.

You can choose to be mad in a negative way where it fuels you to do mean, hateful things, or you can let your madness fuel your art and channel it in a positive way.

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more fascinating than the most fantastic dreams.

Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.

picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.